| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary | Science | 2010 | 1,140 |
| 2 | Radar Sounding Evidence for Buried Glaciers in the Southern Mid-Latitudes of Mars | Science | 2008 | 341 |
| 3 | Radar evidence for ice in lobate debris aprons in the mid‐northern latitudes of Mars | Geophysical Research Letters | 2009 | 270 |
| 4 | Continental arc volcanism as the principal driver of icehouse-greenhouse variability | Science | 2016 | 269 |
| 5 | Accelerated Antarctic ice loss from satellite gravity measurements | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 268 |
| 6 | Seismic sparse-layer reflectivity inversion using basis pursuit decomposition | Geophysics | 2011 | 253 |
| 7 | Direct observations of evolving subglacial drainage beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet | Nature | 2014 | 251 |
| 8 | Direct Evidence of an Oceanic Inverse Kinetic Energy Cascade from Satellite Altimetry | Journal of Physical Oceanography | 2005 | 243 |
| 9 | Massive CO 2 Ice Deposits Sequestered in the South Polar Layered Deposits of Mars | Science | 2011 | 231 |
| 10 | Two-year survey comparing earthquake activity and injection-well locations in the Barnett Shale, Texas | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 221 |
| 11 | The formation of peak rings in large impact craters | Science | 2016 | 181 |
| 12 | An evaluation of subsidence rates and sea-level variability in the northern Gulf of Mexico | Geophysical Research Letters | 2011 | 175 |
| 13 | Exposed subsurface ice sheets in the Martian mid-latitudes | Science | 2018 | 174 |
| 14 | A dynamic early East Antarctic Ice Sheet suggested by ice-covered fjord landscapes | Nature | 2011 | 167 |
| 15 | Extreme temperatures in Southeast Asia caused by El Niño and worsened by global warming | Nature Communications | 2017 | 167 |
| 16 | Robust global ocean cooling trend for the pre-industrial Common Era | Nature Geoscience | 2015 | 166 |
| 17 | Lateglacial and Holocene wet—dry cycles in southern Patagonia: chronology, sedimentology and geochemistry of a lacustrine record from Laguna Potrok Aike, Argentina | Holocene | 2007 | 161 |
| 18 | Importance of pre-impact crustal structure for the asymmetry of the Chicxulub impact crater | Nature Geoscience | 2008 | 156 |
| 19 | The Dallas-Fort Worth Earthquake Sequence: October 2008 through May 2009 | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 2011 | 156 |
| 20 | The Scotia Arc: Genesis, Evolution, Global Significance | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2013 | 146 |
| 21 | Bedform transport rates for the lowermost Mississippi River | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2008 | 139 |
| 22 | Quaternary tectonic response to intensified glacial erosion in an orogenic wedge | Nature Geoscience | 2008 | 137 |
| 23 | The Yakutat terrane: Dramatic change in crustal thickness across the Transition fault, Alaska | Geology | 2010 | 129 |
| 24 | Hydrodynamics of the Caribbean Low-Level Jet and Its Relationship to Precipitation | Journal of Climate | 2010 | 128 |
| 25 | Mechanisms of Methane Hydrate Formation in Geological Systems | Reviews of Geophysics | 2019 | 126 |
| 26 | Crustal-scale seismic profiles across Taiwan and the western Philippine Sea | Tectonophysics | 2005 | 123 |
| 27 | Rapid recovery of life at ground zero of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction | Nature | 2018 | 123 |
| 28 | Improving coral-base paleoclimate reconstructions by replicating 350years of coral Sr/Ca variations | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 2013 | 122 |
| 29 | An equilibrium profile model for retreating marsh shorelines in southeast Louisiana | Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science | 2008 | 121 |
| 30 | Crustal structure of the Yakutat terrane and the evolution of subduction and collision in southern Alaska | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2012 | 121 |
| 31 | Evidence for a water system transition beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 118 |
| 32 | Rapid, precise, and high‐sensitivity acquisition of paleomagnetic and rock‐magnetic data: Development of a low‐noise automatic sample changing system for superconducting rock magnetometers | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 2008 | 115 |
| 33 | Reconstructing twentieth‐century sea surface temperature variability in the southwest Pacific: A replication study using multiple coral Sr/Ca records from New Caledonia | Paleoceanography | 2007 | 113 |
| 34 | Surface characteristics and permeability enhancement of shale fractures due to water and supercritical carbon dioxide fracturing | Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering | 2018 | 112 |
| 35 | Greenland subglacial drainage evolution regulated by weakly connected regions of the bed | Nature Communications | 2016 | 108 |
| 36 | Gas injection may have triggered earthquakes in the Cogdell oil field, Texas | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 101 |
| 37 | The first day of the Cenozoic | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2019 | 100 |
| 38 | Andean stratigraphic record of the transition from backarc extension to orogenic shortening: A case study from the northern Neuquén Basin, Argentina | Journal of South American Earth Sciences | 2016 | 97 |
| 39 | Dynamic modeling suggests terrace zone asymmetry in the Chicxulub crater is caused by target heterogeneity | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2008 | 96 |
| 40 | Collisional model for rapid fore‐arc block rotations, arc curvature, and episodic back‐arc rifting in subduction settings | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 2009 | 96 |
| 41 | Global rate and spectral characteristics of internal gravity wave generation by geostrophic flow over topography | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2011 | 96 |
| 42 | Initiation and long-term instability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet | Nature | 2017 | 95 |
| 43 | Paleoclimate proxy perspective on Caribbean climate since the year 1751: Evidence of cooler temperatures and multidecadal variability | Paleoceanography | 2008 | 94 |
| 44 | Discriminating rapid exhumation from syndepositional volcanism using detrital zircon double dating: Implications for the tectonic history of the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 2012 | 93 |
| 45 | Decadal climate variability in the tropical Pacific: Characteristics, causes, predictability, and prospects | Science | 2021 | 92 |
| 46 | The 2015 landslide and tsunami in Taan Fiord, Alaska | Scientific Reports | 2018 | 89 |
| 47 | Quantitative Assessments of the Martian Hydrosphere | Space Science Reviews | 2013 | 88 |
| 48 | Spectral Energy Fluxes in Geostrophic Turbulence: Implications for Ocean Energetics | Journal of Physical Oceanography | 2007 | 87 |
| 49 | Contrasting Décollement and Prism Properties over the Sumatra 2004–2005 Earthquake Rupture Boundary | Science | 2010 | 86 |
| 50 | Seismic constraints on caldera dynamics from the 2015 Axial Seamount eruption | Science | 2016 | 84 |
